It's taken me a lot of years to peel away my own layers.

I'm enjoying the opportunity that Parks And Recreation affords me to exploit my own soapbox agenda, which is to try to encourage people to make things with their hands.

I grew up in a small town in Illinois, and my dad was a basketball coach. Thanks to him, I have excellent fundamentals in both basketball and baseball.

I have a wonderfully hedonistic appetite, and if I wasn't really strict with myself, I'd weigh 300 pounds. I'm not good with moderation.

If I had more time, I'd watch more woodworking or home-improvement shows, but, not enough hours in the day.

If your shirt isn't tucked into your pants, then your pants are tucked into your shirt.

Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Don't teach a man to fish and you feed yourself. He's a grown man, fishing's not that hard.

Follow your gut, make a choice, and throw yourself into it. If you make a mistake, then you have merely afforded yourself a valuable lesson.

If properly dried and trimmed, New York-style pizza could be used to make a box for Chicago-style pizza.

If you want to be happy in life, consider yourself a student. Every day of your life, think: how can I improve?

Figure out what you love to do, then figure out how to get paid to do it.

Her mouth connected with his. Everything inside her collapsed and was constructed, simultaneously.

i go deeper into my head

Don't worry about the smallest size that light can be, it will chase away the darkness.

Anytime you're playing basketball, and you have a coach who you have to respect, you've got to be very disciplined.

Humility means freedom. It provides growth and takes you out of the cycle of change that you are currently in, which is stagnation.

Am I calm all the time? That is a question to ask my mother. I am very happy in my home. I have a good family, that gives me something extra.

I feel these days like a very large flamingo. No matter what way I turn, there is always a very large bill.

Don't eat anything incapable of rotting.

My mother always said to me, 'Right makes might.' At last, I can believe her.

What has been will be again, what has been done will be done again; there is nothing new under the sun